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Afrobarometer: Round 1.5 Survey of Namibia, 2002 (ICPSR 4234)

Principal Investigator(s):Keulder, Christiaan, Institute for Public Policy Research (Windhoek, Namibia)

Summary:

The Afrobarometer project was designed to assess attitudes
toward democracy, markets, and civil society in several sub-Saharan
African nations, and to track the evolution of such attitudes in those
nations over time. This particular survey was concerned with the
attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Namibia. Respondents were
asked to rate Namibia's President Nujoma and his administration's
overall performance, and to state the most important issues facing the
nation. Opinion... (more info)

The Afrobarometer project was designed to assess attitudes
toward democracy, markets, and civil society in several sub-Saharan
African nations, and to track the evolution of such attitudes in those
nations over time. This particular survey was concerned with the
attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Namibia. Respondents were
asked to rate Namibia's President Nujoma and his administration's
overall performance, and to state the most important issues facing the
nation. Opinions were gathered on the role of the government in
improving the economy, whether corruption existed in local and
national government, whether government officials were responsive to
problems of the general population, and whether local government
officials, the police, the courts, the overall criminal justice
system, the media, the Independent National Electoral Commission, and
the government broadcasting service could be trusted. Respondents were
polled on their knowledge of government officials, their level of
personal involvement in political, governmental, and community
affairs, and the inclusiveness of the government. Economic questions
addressed the past, present, and future of the country's and the
respondent's economic condition, and whether great income disparities
are fair. Societal questions addressed whether everyone should be
responsible for themselves and their own success or failure, what
characteristics respondents used to identify themselves, whether it
was easy to obtain assistance with securing food, water, schooling,
and medical services, and by what methods respondents secured those
things. Background variables include age, language spoken most at
home, education, current employment status, employment status over the
last 12 months, employment history, family financial situation over
the last 12 months, monetary support system, whether a close friend or
relative had died from AIDS, language used in interview, sex,
ethnicity, religious affiliation, religious participation, type of
physical disability, if any, type of housing, and respondent's
attitude during the interview.

(1) Variable TOWN has three undocumented codes, 96,
97, and 98. (2) Variable Q6C has one undocumented code, 12. (3)
Additional information on Afrobarometer research projects is provided
on the Afrobarometer Web site.

Methodology

Sample:
National probability sample.

Weight:
none

Response Rates:
Approximately 90 percent.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: